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There are so many good hotels in Paris these days it’s hard to decide where to stay but the Mandarin Oriental, with its discreet obsession for perfection, is a worthy contender. Once upon a time, Saint Honoré, and its elegant continuation, the Rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré, was just a lo…
The Beirut Design Fair aims to put Lebanese design on the international map and show that creativity is thriving despite the country’s multitude of challenges. Beirut has always been a lively Mediterranean nucleus of innovation but these days it seems there’s a design event almost…
Nimerology is a luxury tableware brand started by Nour Al Nimer, a half-Turkish half-Palestinian artist who grew up between Beirut and London. “When I was at Central Saint Martins, I came across a surface design course and realised that this kind of art surrounds us on a daily basis,” s…
Beirut was once home to hundreds of palaces. Perched on the hills of Ashrafieh, Zokak El Blatt, Clemenceau and Kantari, and spreading east to Gemmayze and Mar Mikhael, these spectacular gems of the Ottoman and French Mandate eras were built by wealthy Lebanese merchants seeking peace an…
On Twitter (where she has 7.1 million followers), she describes herself as “a mum and a wife with a really cool day job”. That job is being queen and she looks the part with her fabulous designer clothes, long glossy hair and teeny-tiny waist. Her Instagram account (3.5m followers) ofte…
Car museums rarely wheel out their treasures and hand over the keys, even to seasoned motoring writers. Yet the Porsche Museum gifted our correspondent and a few fellow hacks precisely that rare adventure.
Interior designer Francis Sultana creates sumptuous homes and tailored furniture for modern-day gentry. Were Louis XIV around today, the architect of Versailles's splendour might well call on Sultana to design and furnish his fictitious twenty-first-century palace.
Danae Mercer travels through Indonesia, named among the world's happiest nations, to understand the joie de vivre of its island archipelago and how, in a place that has so little, contentment can amount to so much.
With a new presence in Dubai and its first large interior-design project under way in the Emirate, Pininfarina extends its Italian legacy across the GCC. Paolo Pininfarina reflects on reinventing the celebrated house after years of mounting debt.
France's Happy Design Studio creates bespoke liveries for private and corporate jets, founded by trained artist and pilot Didier Wolff, who wants aircraft exteriors to be as personal as their owners' cars.
Jeff Koons is the most successful American artist since Andy Warhol, and this is a very brief but beautifully put together documentary about him. Narrated by Scarlett Johansson, the video was commissioned by MOCA Los Angeles for their 2017 gala honouring the artist.
The once perilously fast Mille Miglia road race may have turned into a bit of beauty parade but it’s still a one-of-a-kind occasion that’ll get enthusiasts’ adrenaline pumping. The Mille Miglia (which means 1,000 miles in Italian) was an open-road endurance race that was established by …